Letter: Gun control

It seems that new ideas are constantly emerging on the gun control front and they seem to get more bizarre with each passing day. I just saw online where Colorado Democrats want to introduce legislation to make gun manufacturers liable for deaths committed with their products. Well, that makes a lot of sense.

It seems that new ideas are constantly emerging on the gun control front and they seem to get more bizarre with each passing day. I just saw online where Colorado Democrats want to introduce legislation to make gun manufacturers liable for deaths committed with their products. Well, that makes a lot of sense. Let’s make beer and liquor producers liable for deaths resulting from their intoxicants. What about automobiles and motorcycles; shouldn’t their manufacturers be held liable for deaths that result from the stupid antics of some of the operators of these products? Hey, think about it. What happens when you put the alcohol buzzed driver and the motor vehicles together? You get a weapon of mass destruction. This combination probably kills as many people per year as guns. It happens every day, everywhere here in the U.S., but I don’t recall anyone ever trying to put the blame on the makers of alcoholic beverages or the automobiles. The law always goes after the individual that was responsible or irresponsible, if you will. Makes sense to me.

Additional laws will not bring back the children and adults that were murdered at Sandy Hook, but the news media and President Obama are exploiting that event for all it’s worth to fuel the fires to introduce more gun control laws. I would like to hear President Obama’s response to, “what new gun control law would have prevented the murders at Sandy Hook?” Connecticut already has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, but they didn’t prevent one seriously sick individual from killing his mother, stealing her guns, and going on school property to murder innocent people. That’s at least four crimes committed right there (actually a lot more when you count each person that was murdered ). Adam Lanza’s mother was probably in violation of some Connecticut state or federal law regarding keeping her guns locked away from her deranged son. Numerous laws that are already on the books, broken, but who are you going to punish? Not Adam Lanza. Not his mother. They’re already dead. So, who do you punish for this heinous crime? How do you achieve any sort of lawful closure? What do you do to try and comfort the survivors and to ensure that this sort of thing can’t happen again? What do you do to try and absolve yourself of any guilt that this event was allowed to happen in the first place? Well, it appears that the solution is to punish lawful gun owners. At least that seems to be the logical conclusion of King Obama and those that fall in line behind him.

The truth is, the long arm of the law and government cannot protect everyone from every possible peril every minute of the day. It just can’t be done by introducing more gun control laws. Take Chicago and Washington, D.C., for example. These two cesspools probably have the most stringent gun laws in this country AND the highest murder rate. Quite obviously, tighter gun laws do not equal a lower murder rate. Right after the Sandy Hook event, I heard Richard Moran, some noted criminologist and professor, in a discussion with one of the talking heads on the more liberal CNN news make the following statement: “You cannot predict rare events. That is the problem. Because they’re so statistically insignificant, there’s no way of spotting them. It’s that simple.”

Page 2 of 2 - “You cannot predict rare events.” I thought this was a very profound statement as they were discussing profiling people who commit mass murders, such as Adam Lanza. You can’t predict rare events and you certainly can’t pass legislation to prevent them. If you consider the overwhelming number of lawful gun owners in this country and and the staggering quantity of guns in their possession, then events such as Sandy Hook, Aurora, Colo., and other well known mass shootings, really are statistically rare events committed by people that the “system” couldn’t cull from mainstream society. It’s not a gun problem, it’s a people problem.